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When in the course, of 'human events', It becomes necessary for
ONE people to dissolve ui political "bands which have connected them
with one another, and to kssume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the LaWs of Nature* and df Nature's
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separa-
tion—
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN ABE CREATE1
EQUAL, that they are endowed by their creator with certain
UNALIFVw _e rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursu.' % Happiness—
Th~t to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT OF THE GOVEiiNED—
That whenever ANY from of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is THE HIGHT OF THE PEOPLE to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such
principals and o^^anlzing its powers in such form, as to THEH shall
seem most likely to eff-eot their safety and Happiness.
—THE. DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE
THIS NEWSPAFER IS YOUR PERSONAL FROFERTYM IT CANNOT BE TAKEN
FROM YOU XEGAU-.Y^ THTs KTEWflFATER is YOUR PERSONAL PROPERTY! »
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^ECE/y
''ED •■- 1c
When in the course, of 'human events', It becomes necessary for
ONE people to dissolve ui political "bands which have connected them
with one another, and to kssume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the LaWs of Nature* and df Nature's
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires
that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separa-
tion—
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN ABE CREATE1
EQUAL, that they are endowed by their creator with certain
UNALIFVw _e rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursu.' % Happiness—
Th~t to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from the CONSENT OF THE GOVEiiNED—
That whenever ANY from of Government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is THE HIGHT OF THE PEOPLE to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such
principals and o^^anlzing its powers in such form, as to THEH shall
seem most likely to eff-eot their safety and Happiness.
—THE. DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE
THIS NEWSPAFER IS YOUR PERSONAL FROFERTYM IT CANNOT BE TAKEN
FROM YOU XEGAU-.Y^ THTs KTEWflFATER is YOUR PERSONAL PROPERTY! »
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